South Osborne

Here's a lively little cafe at 725 South Osborne Street, 7 1/4; it has a great atmosphere and meh food.

Enterprising folks in South Osborne are starting a food security co-op, The South Osborne Urban Community Cooperative, based out of the Riverview Community Centre, at 90 Ashland Ave. The Coop has contracted with Harvest Moon and will supply co-op members with high-quality animal food products, and when they get sufficient membership, vegetables and fruit as well.

St. Boniface

St. Boniface has done a much better job with its Red River frontage than the rest of Winnipeg, including reserving public park space along the river. St. Boniface has a nice park and trail system along the Red River and the Seine Creek, with Fort Gibralter, toboggan slides, and some of the biggest trees I've seen in Manitoba. They've even tried to rehabilitate part of the Seine from industrial waste. (They should look to Minnehaha Creek Park as an exquisite urban creek and recreation model.)

I've even seen mildly-rolling...not hills...but...little lumps in St. Boniface residential neighborhoods. I get very excited about elevation. St. Boniface has a couple adorable mini-neighborhoods with the streets in the back and lawns and sidewalks in the front: Perfect for families with kids, though the housing stock is lower-end.

There's an intimate pub cafe with music at 166 Provencher Blvd, Le Garage.

The old-school Belgian Club looks like a VFW or Lions Club; but serves a wide variety of delicious, high-quality imported belgian beer, as you might hope.

Unfortunately, the east side of St. Boniface has some issues with ambient death smell. On the eastern side of St. Boniface there are "abbotoirs," as a friend said politely. Slaughtering houses.